Image Number: 1572366

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Culture
Description:
Method for isolating Monosporascus cannonballus from cantaloupe roots.  Short pieces of roots with lesions are washed then plated onto water agar.  As the fungal mycelium grows out from the lesions, small chunks of agar are transferred to PDA.  August 1996
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Laboratory

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Image location:
, Imperial County

Subject

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Pezizomycotina
Class: Sordariomycetes
Subclass: Xylariomycetidae
Order: Xylariales
Family: Incertae sedis
Genus: Monosporascus
Subject: Monosporascus cannonballus Pollack & Uecker

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucumis
Subject: Cucumis melo L
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Image last updated:
Tuesday, July 3, 2012